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Controls: W / A / D to Fly • Continuous Autofire • M to Mute
Retro Cave Survival Flyer
Controls: W / A / D to Fly • Continuous Autofire • M to Mute
Luolalentely is a retro arcade 2D cave survival flyer featuring realistic thruster physics, inertia, and procedural cavern navigation. This game is a love letter to the genre of Luolalentely (Wiki page is in Finnish). The word "Luolalentely" is Finnish for "Flying around in a cave" for the lack of a better translation. All the game's graphics and sounds, including the music, are code generated. There are no external assets.
Collect fuel, avoid terrain and enemies, pick up power-ups, and see how far you can make it.
Start each flight with three automatic proximity shields: each blocks a lethal hit, surrounds your ship for two seconds, destroys enemies on contact, and bounces off terrain.
You can fly manually or watch the AI pilot with real-time flight telemetry. The AI has three modes:
A rule-based flight mode, a purely Deep Q-Network neural net learning mode, and a hybrid mode which uses a combination of the two.
I am a software engineer and game developer based in Finland. Born in the late 80s, I love 90s retro games and especially the 1996 game Wings which I grew up playing and which was the main inspiration for this game. You can contact me at contact@luolalentely.fi